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Consultant for Pediatricians. Common Medication Errors: Drug #6: Ketorolac
By Tsz-Yin (Jeremy) So, PharmD, BCPS |
March 6, 2013
Dr So is a Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC.
A 5-year-old boy (20 kg) with sickle cell disease presented with a 2-day history of increasingly severe back pain. A detailed workup showed no signs of infection. The patient’s parents did not want their son to take narcotics for the pain. Thus, the boy was given a prescription for ketorolac(Drug information on ketorolac) -- 10 mg PO every 6 hours x 5 days [0.5 mg/kg dose]). What’s the problem here?
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